St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-23

(LeelE-Taxing telegraph companies.
Taxes.
10 Donnely)-To prevent corruption of
public officers by railroad corporations. Ju-
dietary.
II Donnely)-Providing for annual ses-
sions of the legislature. Judiciary.
13 (DOnnelly)-To punish corrupt use Of
money in elections. Judiciary.
IA Lucas)-Regulating the employment of
convict labor. Judiciary.
II Nee)-Taxing express companies. Ju-
dietary.
% (Lum)-To build a bridge at Brainerd.
% (NewelD-To prevent unreasonable de-
lay in payment of workingmen's wages La
bor
% {Keyes)-To regulate common carriers.
Railroads.
81 (Reese)-To prevent combinations and
conspiracieS to control the market price of
grain. Grain Inspection.
36 (Newell)-To abolish the state board of
immigration. Labor. Recommended to pass.
Second reading.
g. (Newel)-To abolish process of garnsh-
ment as applied to workingmen. Judiciary.
Recommended to be indefinitely postponed,
but placed on file for second reading. Labor.
40 [Potter)-Relatiye to Intoxicating liquors.
Temperance.
rs Donnelly)-For the benefit of working
men and mechanics. Judiciary. Recon-
mended to pass.
g.. So (Sevatson)-To tax railroad lands Rail-
roads.
55 (Donnelly)-To control railroad corpora
tions. Railroads.
Ga Donneliy)-To secure postal rights for
the insane. Judiciary. Recommended to
pass
IS (Keyes)-Abolishing the office of oil in
spector. Judiciary.
20 (Prosser)-To inforce high license. Tenn
perance.
95 CWflliams)-To tax notes and mortgages.
Judiciary. Recommended to be indefinitely
postponed. On file for second reading. Second
reading.
1O8 (Shuler)-For building soldiers
home. Soldiers home.
109 (Rogers) Fixing the rate of interest on
money. judiciary.
126 and 127 (Lum)-To create the fourteenth
and fifteenth judicial districts. Judic ary.
1872 (Donney)-To regulate grain ware
houses inspection, etc. Grain inspection.
1873 (Freeman)-To build an addition to the
state normal school. Finance. Normal
schools.
155 (Mattson)- to elections Ju-
dietary.
l69 tRettesaa7#Ios regulate actions for libel.
165 Donnelly) to elections, Ju-
dietary. slS
III (Benn essf-To appropriate money for
the Mahkato Normal school. Finance.
Normal schools.
179 (Baker)-To appropriate money to aid
in draining lands in the Red river valley.
Finance.
1S5 (Freeman)-To build bridge at St.
Cloud delegation, st. Cloud delegation.
200. (Hendricks)-Giving females the right
OF suffrage. Judiciary.
207. (Donnely)-To establish the nomen-
clature Of the Tuscan sources of the Missis-
sippi river. Roads and Manageable streams.
2IS. (Kreis)-To build bridge at Monri-
cello. Roads and bridges.
222. (Potter)-Providing for a constitu-
tional convention. Judiciary.
IN THE SENATE.
No great burden of bills has the senate
forced upon itself, but of the 137 intro
duced, forty-eight may be called weighty
and of general interest in their importance,
and seven of these have been passed. They
cover the great questions embraced in the
party platforms of last fall. No sooner
had the senate organized than Senator
Goodrich of Blue Earth City, started IN for
high license He introduced the first eight
bills of the session, the third raising the
age of consent, and the remaining five being
the bills recommended by the last railroad
commission. Then he prescribed remedy
for grievances caused by the present tax
sales law. He sent up the long bill on
grain and warehouse inspection, also bill
of forty seven or more sections which the
railroad committee had also recommended.
Thus one man was made the instrument
through whom proposed legislation for the
temperance class, the farmer and the
cheated land owner, robbed under
the law pertaining to tax sales and judy
mentS was introduced. But the high license
railroad transportation, grain inspection
and tax title questions only cover a small
portion of the legislative programme the
senate has mapped out for ITSELF Good
rich went further and asked for postal
rights for inmates of insane asylums, legal
identity and rights for married women, the
taxation of large tracts of railroad lands
and lastly, that women be allowed to vote
i'll Minnesota by constitutional amend
ment. The senate has passed his bill to
give postal rights to the confined insane
and will doubtless pass the legal identity
for married women, the age of consent and
the tax title bills.
Other grave questions had their active
workers Senator Bowen. of Sleepy Eye,
has worn the mantle of Thomas Wilson,
and declared war against certain land cor
poratlons owning over 1000, 900 acres of
land, which for years has been exempt from
taxation. Senator Pope, of Mankato,
has been the advocate of legislation
for the old veterans of the Union,
and bills for soldiers home, burial of old
veterans and their preference in public en-
p1OylueHl, nave DceI SelG up 10 the desk
from him. the public preference bill being
passed. Senator Durant, of Saltwater.
has made all effort to prevent impostors
from getting the benefit of the proposed
soldier legislation by getting bill through
to prevent the unlawful wearing OF G. A.
r. badges Marcus johnson also has
soldiers home bill. Senator Swenson, of
MINNEAPOLIS, has been the great labor ad-
yocate. and among his bills are those to es-
tablish labor bureau to regulate the en-
plovment of children, and to prevent loco
motive engineers and tiremen from being
compelled to work over time. Senator Day,
of Fairmont, has devoted his energy to
schools, and Senator Heard has introduced
the proposed township school district system
for passage or death. The children of the
state have their representatives in Senators
Day. Pope, Swenson and Hoard, and efforts
to have them duly instructed as to the
effects of alcohol and narcotics upon the
human system have been made by
Senators Thacker and Brown. a
substitute-bll having been recon-
mended to pass by the committee
ON education. Ives, of st. Peter, has Sc
cured the passage of railroad liabilities
bill: Halvorsen. of Albert Lea. has thrown
the valued insurance policy bill once more
into the mills OF the state legislature; Kel-
Ter. of Sauk Center. has started crusade
against certain erring banks; Daniels, of
H. L. l..